Yep, it's usually a danger sign. I once had three spokes go on a six month old wheel in quick succession, took the wheel into the shop to get them replaced, and within a week had another four go.

I scrapped the wheel despite it being costly for the time. Some rim/hub/use case combinations don't age well. I'd bought a heavy deep section mavic rim because the streets of London were hammering my rear wheel and I thought it would be stronger. Turned out not to be the case. Perhaps the original build wasn't that great.

I had this on two seperate rear wheels on my road bike. Both times the rims had cracks round the spoke holes. Check carefully for this before spending money on spoke replacements. Before I noticed the last rim I'd ridden the Velothon and bombed it down all the hills. Then noticed 3 days later that there was a load of cracks including one about 1cm long across the rim.

Scary to think what would have happened had it gone while doing 40mph down Caerphilly mountain.

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